Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game (2024)

It's an open secret that the original pickup stuff drew inspiration from American pimps of the 1970s, and it's no surprise, if you intend to learn merely how to get laid for free, why not go to the folks who managed not only to seduce women into their bedrooms but also make them dedicate their entire livelihood and dignity for the sake of his approval?

I've been peripherally aware of the concept of pimps and hoes, but to sit down and read about it exposed this mind-boggling world so vividly to me, that it's almost incomprehensible.

To illustrate how absurdly different this world is from “normality”, Pimping Ken writes about a lady called “blowj*b Kathy,” who told a pimp that she’d be his hoe if he let her give him a thousand dollars and blow j*b, yes, she had to pay him, but despite this generous offer, he refused it because his he only accept her as her slave if she paid him $2.500, and to put salt on the wound, she was not be allowed to give him a blowj*b, and had to earn that privilege by an entire year of "hoing" for him.

It's fascinating that the women are willing to go out to do physically and mentally exhausting work, not to mention the fact it undermines their dignity, to earn a substantial amount of money which they happily give away to a man they call "Daddy," a man dressed in colorful suits, and strange looking hats.

The premise of the book is that it's supposed a general self-help book, showing how the pimp-hoe dynamic is not exclusive to their very peculiar subculture, where on one hand, there are extraordinarily co-dependent females and extremely charismatic, narcissistic, and manipulative exploiters on the other, but rather, varying degrees of this dynamic exists elsewhere, in normal-everyday life. To a degree, people are insecure, afraid of the unknown, and are averse to ambiguity, and would like to trade a significant part of their freedom to have someone else take care of those concerns.

An example of this is the hourly wage worker. While prostitution seems to be a uniquely undignifying work, if we decide to take the progressive, liberal attitude that a woman’s worth is not merely in her sexuality, but more essentially in her phenomenology -- her conscious being-in-time -- it goes to reason that selling one’s time for money is the primary issue of dignity - regardless of what sort of service you’re providing during that time, whether it be cognitive work, physical labor or sexual services.

Now, let’s talk about morals…Pimpin Ken said something interesting:

“Whatever you tell somebody you better think about it before it comes out of your mouth. Because if you say it you have to deliver. They say honesty is the best policy. That doesn’t mean you have to say the whole truth - but you have to keep it real, with yourself if no one else.”

He continues…

“Lying shows a lack of character and an inability to face reality. There are better ways of manipulating a person than to lie.”

Pimping Ken says “Lying shows a lack of character” yet, he contradicts himself when he recommends lying, for example when he bragged about how he lied to his hoes about the fact he had other hoes in many different cities, to make them feel special about how much time he spends with them.

Another instance is when he made a deal with a fur coat dealer, having him set the price tag for 10.000 dollars instead of 1.000 for a fur coat. So, he would enter the shop the next with the hoe, and she would fall in love with the coat, and the hoe would work for it, feeling super motivated, she would “hoe like crazy” for it, and the pimp would earn $9.000 because of his sheer intelligence.

People who go to great lengths to not lie by avoiding stating things that are not true, but instead, deceive people by twisting words and confabulating creative misunderstandings deliberately and omitting things to control the person's reality --- all in a desperate effort to have a clear conscience of not “lying.” This is, obviously, a very shallow and archaic understanding of what honesty entails.

Because this book is in many ways Pimpin Ken’s legacy, and I had no doubt it had been read perhaps by a hundred people before its publication, it's embarrassing how his contradiction is painfully obvious.

But, let's see if we can unpack this so we can avoid unnecessarily cringing ourselves to death. Perhaps there is some sort of implicit “meta-message,” namely that you should try to appear as if your word means something by explicitly saying so, buuuut... in reality abusing the trust you set others out to believe. Or ... you could interpret this contradiction in his book as you need to always put yourself in a good light, so by example, you should say that you appear honest, so people can trust you and do business with you, but you can give an example of dishonesty if it shows how smart you are, because people also want to do business with smart people.

You could interpret books like this one, which Donald Trump’s “Art of the Deal” would fall into the same category as, is more about showing, not telling. Meaning, it's not the meaning of words you need to listen to, but how it is delivered that is the message.

So, perhaps Pimpin Ken is sending a subliminal message to the reader that “You need to tell people” like in the book “that you value honesty, but in reality, you must deceive them.”

So, while you could try to read this as if you’re trying to decipher the Kantian ethical framework and spot inconsistency, like a socially awkward left-hemisphered logistician, I would say you could also interpret this as 4D chess, done somewhat unconsciously, automatically, the internal genius of the extremely dark triad types.

Sam Harris had a nice point about guys like Trump and Andrew Tate. They are charismatic due to the strange ethical consistency due to their deception, manipulation, and purely egoistic character being so obvious and ruthless that they become in a weird roundabout way, more trustworthy than the people who hide these aspects of themselves.

There is some undeniable truth in this, as I believe every human being has egoistic drives, at some "level of consciousness," "layer of being" like the onion layer of paradigms of the self Ken Wilber talks about.

Of course, Trump is somehow transcending the paradigm of lies or truth and instead operates on bullsh*t. He calls his social media “Truth social” while in his autobiography he triumphantly recommends deception.

So while there is a virtue and strength and authenticity to owning up to one’s egoism, this isn’t to say that Trump, Tate, and Pimpin Ken are ideal, but it’s important to recognize why they are attractive, as a contrast the typical “virtue signaling” fake kindness and altruism and inauthenticity... "The trick's in her ear sayin' they think about her."

I suppose we can learn from these figures by learning that it’s better to be honest about your dark side, be honest about your dishonesty, honest about your egoism, rather than pretending otherwise.

Another way to put it is that people are so starved of authenticity that they fly like moths into a flame when they see someone exhibiting it, although this authenticity is limited and far from ideal. It is as if we are attracted to bullsh*t because at some level we recognize that everyone is bullsh*tting. Still, at least they are doing it so blatantly obvious, that it becomes charismatic.

Anyways.

While it is impressive that Ken made all his hoes work on Christmas so he could get a new Benz, it makes me wonder, who’s Pimpin Ken’s pimp? He talks about giving his hoes an artificial goal to strive against, for example, the fur coat, but it seems to me someone has done the same to Ken. It seems like when you’re in this paradigm of pimp-hoe, there is an infinitely recursive relationship, where one’s pimp is another’s hoe.

Ken is busting his ass handling all these women, and then he goes to the casino and gambles it away, spending it on luxurious cars and clothes. It seems like shallow ideals from consumer culture are pimping the pimps. Seems like Pimpin Ken’s is actually a hoe, and Satan is his pimp. Or at the very least, the people’s approval that he’s so desperate to gain by flashing his Mercedes Benz.

I found it an eye-opening peak into a strange world, and while it's written as a self-help book, it's just Pimpin' Ken's personal tribute.

As for any influence on me personally, I didn't get much value out of the book, but reading this has made me ever so slightly more hesitant to feel shame about my reluctance to pay for the woman at dinner dates. #pimpstarlife #alphamale #hiphop

You know what I’m saying? …

Play ya hoes against each other. Get inside a hoe's mind and get comfortable pulling on the strings, make her dance like a used up puppet. Moral of the story: If you're a pimp, you've got to accept the fact that hoes are fundamentally tricky, and they WILL try to scam you out of green, if they can. So, it's your responsibility to break a hoe mentally (which shouldn't be too hard), and build her back up again to be the way you want her to be, and the way you want her to be is the way that results in the most money for you, the pimp. Never trust these hoes, always remember money is the bottom line, don't get mad at another pimp if he jacks your hoe- instead, look to yourself and think about where you went wrong etc. Make your hoe think you love her. Train your bottom bitch well, but talk to a hoe that's slacking in private and trick them into thinking you don't trust the bottom bitch, and that you want her to be the new top dog, if only she'd make more money for you. I'm not saying any of it's right, but it's the way it is.